Jonathan Blitzer

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The Bulwark Daily · Jonathan Blitzer: Our New Internment Camps · 15 Jul 2026 podcast

In some ways, the boat strikes in the Caribbean and Pacific that lead up to that, it's all on this continuum where you are branding Venezuelan immigrants living in the United States as alien enemies.

And you're kind of using that logic to intervene in the country itself and try to topple the regime.

And that's one of the ways that they can kind of square the circle of –

you know, the obvious contradiction of they're trying to deport people to a regime that they themselves are saying is repressive, which is the history of U.S.

and Central America too.

You know, the U.S.

propping up these regimes in the region, and when people flee to the United States to seek protection in the United States as well,

Is it really repression?

Well, of course, they're not going to say that because it's a U.S.

ally committing to repression.

So, you know, the idea now that you have the powers running Venezuela being essentially the same players that were active in the Maduro government at a time when the Trump administration is trying to cancel TPS for 350,000 Venezuelans.

It's a good question.

I personally don't have a sense.

I mean, Venezuela is not my area of expertise and I've not been there since, you know, I've not been there at any point recently.

And I mean, from the reports I read, I mean, obviously now there's this humanitarian emergency because the earthquakes.

But it seems like there's the same kind of

general level of political repression that existed before.

Only now, I mean, there was a recent Times report documenting how basically Rubio is coordinating all of the actions of Delsa Rodriguez.

And so the U.S.

now is basically running the country.

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